Pictures: 2010 review in photos

The iconic image of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, as they are attacked in their car in London by students demonstrating against tuition fee rises.

Prince William and Kate Middleton pose in one of two official engagement portraits, taken by photographer Mario Testino in the Cornwall Room at St James’s Palace in London on November 25, 2010. The prince and his fiancee, Catherine Middleton, are to get married next year, the Buckingham Palace said last month.

24/11/10 Protesters targeting a police van during a demonstration against an increase in university tuition fees, in Westminster, central London.

24/06/10 Soldiers from the Coldstream Guards leaving a memorial service at the Guards’ Chapel, Wellington Barracks before home coming parade.

25/11/10 A cyclist riding through the snow in York this evening.

23/02/10 A model having her dress altered backstage at the Nathan Jenden – 2010 catwalk show at The Dairy, London.

11/05/410 Queen Elizabeth II greeting David Cameron at Buckingham Palace in an audience to invite him to be the next Prime Minister following the General Election.

12/05/10 The new British Prime Minister David Cameron (left) with the new Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on the steps of 10 Downing Street in central London.

10/11/10 A demonstrator kicks the windows of Millbank Tower, in Westminster, central London as students and teachers gathered in central London to protest against university funding cuts and Government plans to charge up to 9,000 per year in fees from 2012.

25/03/10 The Prince of Wales (left) listening to a British soldier at British military Camp Pimon in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

12/09/10 Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow performing at the Help For Heroes Concert at Twickenham Stadium, south west London. Robbie rejoined Take That and they soon sold out a tour scheduled for 2011.

09/08/10 Elaine Davidson, the most pierced woman according to the Guinness Book of Records performing on the Royal Mile as a statue during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

29/09/10 New Labour Party leader Ed Miliband watching the opening session of the Labour Party’s annual conference in Manchester.

02/06/10 Police looking under a blanket covering a body on Hagget End Road, in Egremont, where a person was shot dead when taxi driver Derrick Bird went on a shooting rampage in the Lake District.

13/09/10 Billboard installer Carl Taylor helps to launch Wonderbra’s new Full Effect bra, with it’s first ever 3D billboard in central London, to highlight the bra’s ability to boost busts by two cup sizes.

15/06/10 Prince Harry and Prince William posing with a rock python during a visit to the Mokolodi Nature Reserve in Gabarone, Botswana.

31/05/10 British Airways cabin crew taking part in the second five day strike as the dispute with the airline continues, as a plane flies overhead, at Hatton Cross near Heathrow Airport, Middlesex.

12/06/10 Queen Elizabeth II laughing as she stands alongside Prince William (left) and the Duke of Edinburgh (right) to watch a flypast from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, central London following the Trooping the Colour ceremony at Horse Guards Parade.

28/08/10 Prime Minister David Cameron holding his baby daughter, Florence Rose Endellion Cameron who was born on Tuesday August 24, during their summer holiday in Cornwall.

25/06/10 Emma Watson backstage during the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset.

14/12/10 of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as Swedish authorities will come to the High Court to try to block his bail.

A Peugeot 406 car after it went through ice covering the Union Canal in Winchburgh, West Lothian.

Artist Roger Dean claims that certain elements of Avatar were inspired by his works (Picture: AP/ Twentieth Century Fox)

March 7, 2010, Sandra Bullock and Jesse James arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. soon before they broke up after reports of Jesse being unfaithful.

Aug. 5, 2010, Naomi Campbell is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands to give evidence at the war crimes trial of former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor. Campbell was questioned about claims made by actress Mia Farrow that Taylor gave the British model an uncut diamond after a dinner party hosted by Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1997.

Sept. 12, 2010 picture, Lady Gaga, left, accepts the award for Video of the Year presented by Cher, right, at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. If you needed any evidence that the U.S. has become a nation of watchers, look no further than 2010. The spectacle that was the past year made certain that the image _ the weird, wonderful, horrifying, mesmerizing image _ reigned supreme. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

July 11, 2010, Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas holds up the trophy after the World Cup final soccer match between the Netherlands and Spain at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa. Spain won 1-0.

June 12, 2010 file photo, England’s Robert Green fails to save a goal during the World Cup group C soccer match between England and the United States at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa.

Goal? Not according to the ref. June 27, 2010, Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer looks at the ball that hit the bar to bounce over the line during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Germany and England at Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa.